Bernhaed wolff



(No Model.)

B. WOLFE.

BOA;

No. 364,617. Patgnted June 7, 1887.

5 E 5 5 E N N. PETERS. Fhulo-Lixha m her, Washington, D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNHARD WOL -0 NEW YORK, N. Y.

. BOA.

SSPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,617, dated June 7, 1887.

Application" filed April 25, 1887. Serial No. 236,059. (No model.) 7

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERNHARD WOLFE, a

- citizen of Germany, residing at New York,

in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Boa, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a boa or round fur tippet which is provided at its center with a curved spring, which retains the boa in its proper position around the neck without necessitating the boa to be tied'at its ends.

The invention consists in the features of improvement hereinafter more fully pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a face view of my improved boa. Fig. 2 is a face view, partly in horizontal central section, of the same.

The-letter a represents a boa or strip of fur made into tubular form. The two depending ends of the boa a are stuffed or filled up with a cotton or similar filling, b, as shown, while the central portion of the boa contains aspring, c. This spring is preferably a flat band-spring,

and is re-enforced at its center by a shorter spring, d, the ends of which are placed back of the ends of the spring 0. Both the springs c d are incased, either entirely or partially, by a tubular envelope, 6. The two endsof the spring 0 should not be in the same plane, or in line horizontally, but they should overlap, one end being placed beneath the other. In this way the right and left sections of the boa will cross each other, as shown in Fig. 1, and will fall down gracefully.

The boa is readily placed around the neck by first distending the springs. It will adapt itself to the size of the neck, and will automatically be held in place without being tied.

Vhat I claim isx The combination of boa a, having filling b in its ends, with springs c d, one beingshorter than the other, and with the envelope 6, inclosing such springs, substantially as specified.

- BERNHARD VVOLFF.

Witnesses:

F. v. BRIEsEN, HENRY E. ROEDER. 

